Practice area
We advise operators, investors, financiers, and service companies across Bolivia’s hydrocarbons industry. Drawing on decades of sector experience, we handle projects, contracts, approvals, transactions, transportation, commercialisation, regulatory change, and disputes throughout the oil and gas value chain.
Overview
At C.R. & F. Rojas, we are at the forefront of the hydrocarbons sector in Bolivia, offering comprehensive legal services to both local and international clients involved in the oil and gas industry. Our specialists focus on environmental, administrative, tax, and corporate law, and on dispute resolution, to serve entities establishing operations in the market.
Drafting and analysis of concession contracts, construction, equipment assembly, and supply agreements
Formulation and review of gas supply contracts, asset purchase agreements, long-term energy purchase (off-take) agreements, and drilling contracts
Advice on joint operation agreements and joint ventures
Development of hydrocarbon transportation agreements
Hydrocarbon sale and purchase contracts
Representation before public entities and government offices
Public procurement
International pipeline projects
Support in exploration, refining, distribution, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and derivatives
Guidance on hydrocarbon sector company acquisitions
Financing of hydrocarbon projects
Monitoring legal developments relevant to the hydrocarbons sector
Tax consulting
Environmental law aspects
Senior Partner. Joined the firm in 1971. Harvard LL.M. Fifty-four years advising foreign capital entering Bolivia.
Managing Partner. Chicago LL.M. Corporate, energy, hydrocarbons and mining, from both offices.
Partner. Heads the Mining and Environmental Law departments. Over thirty years advising the largest foreign investors in Bolivia.
Partner. Cross-border transactions, M&A, private equity, and the structuring of foreign direct investment. Qualified in New York.
6 July 2026
Private operators may now import diesel and gasoline directly. The decree ends a long-standing state monopoly on fuel importation and creates a licensing route for private participation.
12 December 2025
Foreign currency and virtual assets admitted as payment for hydrocarbon purchases — a notable first.
La Paz · Santa Cruz · Cochabamba
